check-the-provider-before-you-catalog

Trigger

You are changing a model catalogue. Identifiers, prices, limits, modalities and tool support can change independently.

Do

Take the exact slug, price and served window from the live OpenRouter index through chimera.providers.listing; record the source and check date. When a row's price differs from the index, retain the old pair in also_seen rather than overwriting its history. Keep unknown values as None, never guessed. Check for duplicates. If the source is ambiguous, leave the entry unchanged and ask.

Avoid

Do not copy prices or windows from a vendor's marketing page or another model. Do not overwrite also_seen history. An advertised window is not necessarily the window the route serves.

Check

Run the catalogue unit tests and tests/test_catalog_is_live.py (a network check run on main), then inspect the entry through the CLI. Non-empty fields alone do not prove correctness.

Risk

The live index can change after merge as routes and prices change. Source references and check dates make updates traceable; they do not guarantee future accuracy. Receipts are priced from the live index; the catalogue row is a fallback.